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Trend Lines
phillip786 trend lines won't work below a text level in a hierarchy either. It will only work at the top level if the top level is a numeric value, and if any level below that is not a numeric value it will stop working for that level and all below it. It's pretty much all or nothing. You can't use the default hierarchy for dates; I suppose you'd have to construct your own fully numeric hierarchy. Hopefully this will be remedied in the future but for now that's how it is.
Anonymous Thanks for the info, I got it to work by creating a new measure that was just the =Month() of the date column and used that in my trend by month chart. I hope they get this fixed or be able to have a Value/Label pair so we can have Month names while still keeping the trend line.
phillip786 as far as I can tell the current trend lines are just the initial implementation, not the complete support they eventually plan. Seems to be the pattern with Power BI development: they release a feature as soon as the minimum usable version of it is ready rather than waiting until they have a more finished product. It's good because new features show up relatively quickly and we can provide feedback earlier in the development process, but bad because now I have a program full of half-features that I want but can't use yet.